Clube de leitura: a arte sequencial contribuindo para o ensino de história

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the pedagogical potential of Sequential Art as a tool for History learning in High School, through the implementation of a Book Club as an educational product. The study starts from the observation that traditional History teaching, often centered on the memorization of dates and events, distances itself from students' reality, generating a learning gap. To overcome this barrier, the creation of a welcoming and dialogic environment is proposed, grounded in the principles of Paulo Freire's liberating education. The theoretical framework is built on Cultural History, drawing on the studies of Peter Burke and Roger Chartier, on Edward Said's critique of Orientalism, and on Frantz Fanon's work, aiming to deconstruct stereotypes and promote cognitive justice in the school curriculum. The selection of the Book Club's collection for this research was made through two autobiographical works: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (2022), which narrates the 1979 Iranian Revolution through the eyes of a young girl, and The Arab of the Future (vol. 1), by Riad Sattouf (2015), which depicts the author's childhood between France, Libya, and Syria. Both works offer internal narratives of the Middle East that confront hegemonic representations in Western media, allowing students to engage with plural historical perspectives that nourish decolonial imaginaries. The Book Club methodology is structured in four stages: designing the welcoming space; dissemination and formation of the reading community; identification of learning gaps; and selection of the works. Mediation is conceived as a horizontal process, in which the teacher/mediator takes on the role of facilitator of the encounter between the reader and the text. The results indicate that Sequential Art, when properly mediated, can sensitize History teaching, awaken student protagonism, and develop historical empathy, contributing to the formation of critical readers and citizens aware of their reality. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]